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...plot begins aboard a rather spacious submarine, where a uniquely unprofessional crew works to complete a secret assignment at the behest of an anonymous but wealthy client. The crew soon focuses its wandering attention on the new “mop boy” who has mysteriously materialized on board the vessel. After a brief but intense interrogation, the true identity of the inept janitor is revealed: he’s Darryl Loomis, spelling prodigy and teenage stowaway...
...that occurs in the last few minutes of the movie. Most of the story takes place aboard a bus making its slow way up from Miami toward New York City, with Gable acting as Colbert's chaste protector--honorable knight disguised as roadwise cynic--as she tries to elude her father's detectives. The bus is the real Frank Capra America, a gallant little vessel pushing through sparsely settled American countryside, the passengers, ensemble, singing The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, checking into roadside motor cabins when a bridge washes out and waiting in line next morning...
...decided. Sources at the Pentagon say that in all likelihood he would be selected by President Bush to face a military tribunal. But where that proceeding would occur and under what ground rules remain to be hammered out. He would probably spend some time in custody at sea aboard a U.S. warship. (American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh is being held aboard the U.S.S. Bataan, an amphibious assault ship in the Arabian Sea.) A shipboard trial for Omar is even possible. Charges would probably involve aiding a terrorist enterprise but not directly engaging in terrorism, which would be harder...
...sure he had Bush's confidence that he never made the ritual offer to resign after 9/11; he didn't even apologize. And when Tenet came under fire from Republicans, Bush was there with the hoses. "We cannot be second-guessing our team," Bush told a group of lawmakers aboard Air Force One on Sept. 27, "and I'm not going to. The nation's at war. We need to encourage Congress to frankly leave the man alone. Tenet's doing a good job. And if he's not, blame...
...increased screening procedures and technology at security checkpoints. As of Jan. 18, airlines will be required to inspect every bag on domestic flights for explosives, as they now do for foreign flights. (Even that scrutiny won't catch everything, as was shown Saturday when a man aboard an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami, apparently with explosives in his shoes, was subdued by crew members and passengers after he tried to ignite the explosives with a match...